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Re: See How Easily You Can Search Oracle

Eddie Awad — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:44:18 -0000

Alex, assuming that you have Firefox 2 and JavaScript enabled, you should be able to just click on any link under Install Oracle search plugins heading in the post above to install the corresponding search plugin.

Once installed, you will be able to select it from the list of search engines in the search bar (usually at the top right corner of your browser window - Ctrl+K to go there).

An alternative approach that I did not mention in the post, is to actually manually save the search plugin XML file (http://awads.net/misc/searc... for example) to your "searchplugins" folder in your Firefox profile folder, and then restart Firefox.

Re: See How Easily You Can Search Oracle

Alex Gorbachev — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:40:52 -0000

Am I too stupid to figure out how to add your custom searches to Firefox 2?
The icon is the same and there is no java-script link.

Re: See How Easily You Can Search Oracle

ronald — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:22:42 -0000

thanks again Eddie!

Re: See How Easily You Can Search Oracle

Rob V — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:05:34 -0000

That's all great, but there's a much easier way to get information than searching documentation. Just ask Tim Hall your questions directly without checking the docs. He loves that! :)

Re: See How Easily You Can Search Oracle

Eddie Awad — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:56:36 -0000

I use Firefox for my daily browsing, nevertheless, I installed the IE-only Oracle toolbar out of curiosity.

Basically, it has three main functions:

<ol>
<li>It adds a search box to search Oracle-only sites using search.oracle.com</li>
<li>It adds shortcuts to a few Oracle-only places like OTN, Metalink and downloads.</li>
<li>It adds a small rotating headlines box for Oracle-only RSS feeds.</li>
</ol>

I guess some people may find it useful, others may find it too limiting.

Re: See How Easily You Can Search Oracle

APC — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:00:44 -0000

Oracle have launched their own toolbar for searching "DBA resources on OTN":

http://www.oracle.com/techn...

But as it only supports IE (at the moment) I haven't installed it.

Cheers, APC